Lead Platform Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the architecture, evolution, and operational excellence of a large-scale cloud-native platform on AWS. You will design and build core platform capabilities using Kubernetes, Terraform, and a deep AWS services stack, including EKS, ECS, Lambda, and VPC, while owning platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience across multiple product engineering teams. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with mentoring, architectural governance, and continuous platform improvement. This is an on-site position based in Chennai, India.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and evolve cloud platform capabilities following engineering best practices while leveraging AI-assisted development tools where appropriate;
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and maintainable platform services;
• Prototype and validate architectural solutions to establish a solid technical foundation for future platform development;
• Own the long-term evolution of the platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, operational excellence, and an outstanding developer experience;
• Own the technical health of the platform, including reliability, scalability, performance, quality, and engineering velocity;
• Perform code reviews focused on architecture, maintainability, security, and implementation quality;
• Drive continuous improvements through refactoring, performance optimization, and technical debt reduction;
• Mentor software engineers by promoting engineering best practices, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing;
• Identify technical bottlenecks and lead initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness and developer productivity;
• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to evaluate technical opportunities, trade-offs, and implementation constraints;
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, cloud services, and engineering practices that strengthen the platform;
• Communicate technical designs through documentation, architecture diagrams, design reviews, and technical discussions;
• Contribute to technical documentation and long-term engineering knowledge sharing.

Must haves

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience;
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating AWS-based production platforms;
• Experience designing platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and developer experience;
• Deep expertise with AWS services, including EC2, Auto Scaling, EKS, ECS, Lambda, VPC, ALB, NLB, Route 53, PrivateLink, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager;
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes;
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent technologies;
• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, or similar tools;
• Experience analyzing, optimizing, and managing AWS infrastructure costs;
• Strong programming experience with Java, Python, or Go;
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems, cloud networking, scalability, and highly available architectures;
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across distributed engineering teams;
• Upper-intermediate English level.

Nice to haves

• Experience building internal platform services or developer platforms;
• Experience with cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks;
• Experience improving developer experience through platform automation and self-service tooling;
• Experience leading architectural initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams;
• Experience implementing AI-assisted software development practices;
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines;
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles;
• Experience contributing to technical documentation, architecture standards, and engineering knowledge bases.